Dear Patrons, As we begin the fifth week of classes, I’m writing to provide you with a synopsis of recent news and links to useful resources and events of interest for the next five days. We trust you’re connecting to digital resources without difficulty. However, if you run into any trouble our IS Lab Staff,…
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MLIS student Doug Daniels employs rapid 3D-print prototyping to aid frontline workers
Published: April 20, 2020MLIS student and new UCLA Emerging Technologies Librarian spearheads rapid 3D prototyping in response to coronavirus shortages
Read MoreIS Lab Patron Update 20S Week 3
Published: April 20, 2020Dear Patrons, As we begin the fourth week of classes, I’m writing to provide you with a synopsis of recent news and links to useful resources and events of interest for the next five days. By now, you’ve probably worked through any technical issues you may have had connecting to digital resources. However, if you…
Read MoreLibrarians publish article on development of new IS Lab resources
Published: April 15, 2020Individual Portfolio Presentation Review with an Alumni Panel
Published: April 13, 2020Presenting a digital portfolio with confidence—particularly via Zoom—takes practice. Please register to participate in a new matchmaking endeavor, in which students and alumni are matched for one-on-one coaching.
Read MoreIS Lab Patron Update 20S Week 2
Published: April 13, 2020Dear Patrons, I hope this email finds you and yours faring relatively well, under these unprecedented circumstances. Each week, I’ll provide you with a synopsis of recent news and links to useful resources and events of interest for the next five days. Since the official closure of UCLA’s campus libraries on Friday, March 20, patrons have…
Read MoreIS Lab Patron Update 20S Week 1
Published: April 4, 2020Dear Patrons, I hope this email finds you and yours faring relatively well, under these unprecedented circumstances. For many reasons, I write to share with you how the IS Lab aims to serve our community during the Spring and Summer terms. Chief among them is my ardent hope that we all acknowledge our humanity as…
Read MoreCall for metadata volunteers: Critical hospital equipment service manuals
Published: April 3, 2020Medical teams around the world are either dealing directly with or preparing for an onslaught. Biomedical technicians (biomeds for short) are the repair experts at hospitals, and in many regions they are stretched thin. There are a wide variety of machines made by a number of different manufacturers at hospitals around the world, and there…
Read MoreTaking advantage of e-books in the UCLA Library catalog
Published: April 1, 2020While, sadly, we cannot take advantage of the many books available in UCLA Libraries and the IS Lab collection during this period of online instruction, many Information Studies materials are actually available as e-books. You can search for these materials in the catalog the same way you would normally search for items. Use the filtering…
Read MorePerspectives on professional labor & library services to incarcerated people in Library Quarterly & Library Trends
Published: March 10, 2020In this new series of blog posts, we highlight physical resources available for research and experimentation in the IS Lab . For our first blog post, we introduce The Library Quarterly and Library Trends, two longstanding journals of library and information research. Both journals and their editorial teams are composed of scholars with interdisciplinary backgrounds…
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